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Barenboim to conduct New Year’s celebration in Vienna

December 31st, 2008, 1:01 am · 2 Comments · posted by Timothy Mangan, music critic

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Long a tradition in our house, the PBS Great Performances broadcast of “From Vienna: The New Year’s Celebration (2009)” is this year hosted by Julie Andrews (who takes the reins from Walter Cronkite) and conducted by Daniel Barenboim. Mr. Barenboim isn’t the first conductor I think of when Johann Strauss comes to mind, but the Vienna Philharmonic can do the show on autopilot, I suspect, though it never sounds that way. Barenboim will do fine.

KCET will broadcast the concert at 8:30 p.m. on Jan. 1 (check local listings). Pour a glass of champagne and enjoy. I will.

Previously: Viennese Heaven

The video is of Carlos Kleiber conducting the Vienna Phil in Johann Strauss, Jr.’s “Elijen A Magyar” in 1989.

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 2 Comments

  • chris says:
    December 31, 2008 at 4:33 pm

    Just saw that Georges Pretre is scheduled to return for the 2010 New Year’s Concert. I really liked what I saw of his concert in 2008.

  • Tim Mangan, music critic says:
    January 1, 2009 at 10:36 am

    That’s good news. I liked him very much last year as well.